Career Quotes
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Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts.
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I have an uncle who lived to 101, and my father died at 95, so I have a second career ahead of me.
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I have never been one of those actors who say, 'Oh, my character wouldn't do this,' or 'My character never wears an orange shirt,' or any of the number of inane things I've heard on movie sets throughout my career.
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Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that's where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it's easier to combine career and family.
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I have been fortunate to have a career that has allowed me to travel the world and come in contact with many different cultures and people.
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I've finally reached a stage in my career where I can do what I want.
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My career has never really been a vertical kind of thing. I mean, it's always been a bit difficult for me.
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My first job now is as a mother, everything else is secondary. My kids understand that I am an actress, and they are always so surprised to hear my voice on a cartoon character, or see my face on a video box. If it ever gets to be too much though, the career and the kids, I will simply set the career aside.
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I've been so fortunate in my career and my own life just to have all these opportunities, and the talk show has always been one of my favorite formats.
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Frazier was never the same after his first fight with Ali. He fought the best fight of his career in that fight.
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My formal speaking career began before a group of 10 third-graders. We drew pictures of my home in Rwanda. I told them about my mother's huge garden and our mango tree. The lessons I taught were simple. Play nicely. Take care of plants. Take care of people.
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If you look at my career path, I was a human rights and refugees officer for the United Nations. I helped research a book for Lloyd Axworthy. I've worked in coffee shops. I've sold clothes. I've hosted TV shows, and now I'm acting.
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At the start of my career, I fought to prevent offshore drilling along the Atlantic Coast.
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I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as a way to make a living.
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I've never had a career of that kind of box office power. I've always learned the hard way.
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The decision-making process was very difficult: is this how I want my career to start, with playing Jodie Dallas on this show?
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I have career ADD, he says. I have career dissatisfaction. Even as a young kid, I'd have that. I'd get really passionate about something and then I'd realize, 'I don't want to do that!
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When you're at the highest point of your career at the highest level in your sport, any moment that you have these setbacks and injuries is devastating. You have to start back from zero, and you never know if you're going to get back to where you once were.
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My wife has her own career and has been successful as well. The key for our success is mutual support for each other.
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I've met so many remarkable people so far, coming up through stand-up all these years, who just aren't alive anymore. Because they are dead. Some really great people who helped change my life and career, people like Richard Pryor, Sam Kinison, Rodney Dangerfield, Johnny Carson.
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It's all about how can you take care of yourself when furthering your life's goals and ambitions, and purpose and whatever you choose - family, career - to maintain a really balanced, whole, healthy outlook.
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Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts.
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Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this - that it's a job?
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You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.
